Tidy-holder



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. F. A. GIRA J. H GPELL.

TIDY HOLDER.

No. 411,188. Patented Sept. 1'7, 1889..

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UNITED STATES FRANK A. GIRA AND JOHN H.

PATENT OFFICE.

GFELL, OF BELLEVUE, OHIO.

TlDY-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 411,188, dated September 17, 1889.

Application filed June 25, 1889.

To (0Z6 whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FRANK A. GIRA and JOHN H. GFELL, citizens of the United States, residing at Bellevue, in the county of Huron and State of Ohio, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Tidy- Holders; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in tidy-holders of that class formed of spring wire of a single piece bent into the required shape to form clamping-arms, which embrace the piece of furniture to which it is to be applied upon opposite sides, with the tidy between one set of arms and the article of furniture to which it is applied.

The invention has for its object, in addition to the production of an improved tidyholder, to produce a holder the employment of which will produce satisfactory results, and by which all danger of marring or inj uring the chair or other piece of furniture is avoided.

We are aware that it has been heretofore proposed to form tidyholders of various forms from a single piece of spring-wire, and therefore do not seek to cover such construction, broadly, but restrict ourselves to our peculiarities of construction.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved holder. Fig. 2 is a side or edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section illustrating the same applied to a chair-back.

In the form of holder most resembling ours the ends of the wire composing the holder are bent outward at right angles to the arms of the holder and at right angles to the clamping arms or jaws, so as to engage under the back-rail of the chair at the top and prevent Serial No. 315,481. (No model.)

the rising up of the holder. This we wish to avoid, as it is impossible to apply or take off the holder without marring the chair.

The invention in the present instance re sides in the peculiarities of construction of the holder, as more fully hereinafter described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and then particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views in which they occur.

Referring now to the details of the draw ings by letter, A designates the holder, which is formed of a single piece of wire of suitable size best adapted for the purpose. This wire is first bent at the center of its length to form the loop a, which may be of any desired shape, but preferably practically square, as shown, this form having been found best suited to hold the tidy in the form of a rosette, the angles forming much better holds on the tidy than the Wire of a round loop. From this loop the wires are bent upward a short distance, being preferably inclined slightly outward from each other, and then are bent at right angles to the vertical portions to form the horizontal portions 1), which in use are adapted to rest upon the top of the top cross-bar of the chair-back or the other piece of furniture on which. it is applied. From these horizontal portions the wires are bent at right angles, or substantially so, to form the vertical arms 0, which extend. slightly below the lower portion of the loop, where they are bent or curved, as shown at d, and again extended upward, but, instead of being arranged in the same vcrtical plane with the arms 0, are inclined toward the loop portion, so that when these upwardly-extending arms 6 reach the upper end of the holder they are about midway of the horizontal portions 1). The ends of the wire are here coiled around in a plane parallel with each other, as shown, extending toward the rear of the holder.

In practice the holder is applied as shown and when the .holder is in place they press I horizontal portions 19, the vertical arms 0, verwith sufficient force against the chair to tical inclined arms e, and the coiled free ends,

firmly hold the holder and tidy in place, and substantially as herein shown and described.

from practical test have been found to serve In testimony whereof we affix our signa- I 5 5 much more efficiently than were they bent tures in presence of two witnesses.

parallel with the other arms. The coiled ends of the Wire form a hold for the fingers FRANK A. GIRA. in removing the holder. JOHN H. GFELL.

What is claimed as new is- Witnesses: 10 The tidy-holder described, formed of a sin- L. E. MERRY,

gle piece of Wire bent to form the loop a, the CHAS. M. MERRY. 

